{"id":2000109409,"date":"2026-04-20T19:02:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/?p=2000109409"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:02:06","slug":"why-davido-prefers-his-children-to-stay-out-of-the-showbiz-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/why-davido-prefers-his-children-to-stay-out-of-the-showbiz-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Davido prefers his children to stay out of the showbiz industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The award-winning artist made the remarks during a recent interview on The Breakfast Club, where he opened up about family, fatherhood, and the lessons he learned from his own journey into music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davido said he would prefer his children to work in the companies owned by his father, Deji Adeleke, instead of navigating the challenges of the entertainment world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the singer, his decision is largely influenced by the struggles he faced before finding success in music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He explained that his father initially did not support his decision to pursue music, a situation he said affected him deeply before his eventual breakthrough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding to a question on whether he would want his children to enter the industry or work with their grandfather, Davido replied, \u201cOmo, go and work with my dad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He went on to describe how much joy his father finds in spending time with his grandchildren, especially during family gatherings such as Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery Christmas, my dad takes all the grandkids with him. And I could just see that upon all the things he has including multiple private jets and all that, his happiness is him seeing his grandchildren,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davido also noted that seeing his father\u2019s happiness changed his perspective on life and success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd my father is single. So I just saw his happiness and I\u2019m like meh, this is like what life is all about,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflecting on his own experience, the singer said his father\u2019s early resistance to his music career \u201creally killed my joy\u201d until he eventually proved how determined he was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite preferring a different path for his children, Davido said he would not stop them if they chose entertainment, adding that one of his daughters is already showing interest in music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to do that to my kids as well. My daughter is already singing and dancing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Davido said he would prefer his children to work in the companies owned by his father, Deji Adeleke, instead of navigating the challenges of the entertainment world.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Afrobeats star Davido has revealed that he would rather see his children work in the family business than pursue careers in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000109410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000109409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000109410,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Davido-2023-BET-Awards-920x598-1.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":920,"height":598,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Davido-2023-BET-Awards-920x598-1.jpg","width":150,"height":98},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Davido-2023-BET-Awards-920x598-1.jpg","width":300,"height":195},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Davido-2023-BET-Awards-920x598-1.jpg","width":768,"height":499},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Davido-2023-BET-Awards-920x598-1.jpg","width":920,"height":598},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Davido-2023-BET-Awards-920x598-1.jpg","width":920,"height":598}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000109409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000109409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000109409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000109413,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000109409\/revisions\/2000109413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000109410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000109409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000109409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000109409"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000109409"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000109409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}